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“To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”

Mind Problem Dies Pleasure Clear Remains Active

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.”

Years Pleasure Masters Remains International Credit Engagement Bowls Cricket Tendulkar

Author:Allan Donald

“One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.”

Should Art Facts My Own Pleasure Silence Aim Remains Compliment Stable Ups & Downs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.”

Writing Art Pain Reading Pleasure Remains Intense Pain And Pleasure Art Of Writing

Book:The profane art: essays and reviews

Source: The profane art: essays and reviews

“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

Men War Certain Individual Hours Pleasure Opinion Eternal Aspect Remains Impulse Gambling Formal Forbidden Outlets Gamble Puritan Casinos Irrationality

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.”

“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.”

Men Stills Artist Process Enjoy Pleasure Effort Objects Truth Is Succeed Highest Remains Satisfaction Theoretical Covering Discarded Uncovering

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?”

Ifs Pleasure Practice Study Greatness Remains Sage Annoyed

Author:Confucius